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    The Kapi Agha (Turkish: Kapı ağası, "Agha of the Gate"), formally called the Agha of the Gate of Felicity (Bâbüssaâde ağası), was the head of the eunuch...
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    Ottoman Empire Agha Petros Agaluk Aga Khan Agha of the Janissaries Kapi Agha Kizlar Agha Silahdar Agha Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aghas. Narrative...
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    chambers making up the palace's Inner Service (Enderûn) under the Kapi Agha. The Silahdar Agha's duties in the palace involved handling all communications to...
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    of the Kizlar Agha the most powerful person in the palace after the Sultan—was the Kapi Agha or chief white eunuch. After the Kapi Agha came a number...
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    "chief black eunuch" quickly eclipsed the "chief white eunuch" or kapı ağası "agha of the gate", who had hitherto been the head of the palace personnel...
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  • Şehabeddin started as a court eunuch (hadım), then advanced to become Kapi Agha, a close advisor to the Sultan, before being appointed governor (sanjakbey)...
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  • "had closer contact with the pages of the privy chamber, the kapi agha, the kizlar agha or with other courtiers than he did with the Grand Vizier, and...
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    sultans' mothers List of Ottoman sultans' consorts Kizlar Agha Inner Palace Service Kapi Agha Palace Schools Central (Porte) Provincial Eyalets Beylerbeys...
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    Europe Slavery in Africa Slave narrative § North African slave narratives Kapi Agha Ghilman Mamluk Turkish Abductions Guðríður Símonardóttir Jan Janszoon...
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    The chief black eunuch was known as the Kizlar Agha, and the chief white eunuch was known as the Kapi Agha. Murad took great interest in the arts, particularly...
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  • sultans' mothers, was originally responsible to the Kapi Agha, but after the 17th century to the Kizlar Agha. The latter often used educated members of the...
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    that the Sultan could make his wishes known to the Council through the Kapi Agha. In Ottoman legal theory, however, as codified in the 16th and 17th centuries...
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  • considerably: from the Kizlar Agha he assumed the role of intermediary between the Grand Vizier and the Sultan, and from the Kapi Agha he took over control of...
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    to counterbalance them, Bayezid began sending trusted chief eunuchs (kapi aghas) to important provincial governorships. Mesih's diplomatic credentials...
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  • Kethüda (redirect from Kapı kehaya)
    the provincial administration, where the kethüda served as a deputy to the agha or re'is in charge of a department or unit or a provincial governor (beylerbey...
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    Ese Kapi Mosque (Turkish: Ese Kapı Mescidi or Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mescidi, where mescit is the Turkish word for a small mosque), also "Isa Kapi Mosque"...
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  • authority. This is like "azap agha" for the commanders of azaps, "besli agha" for the commanders of besli, "janissary agha" for the commanders of janissary...
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    The large Gate of Salutation, also known as the Middle Gate (Turkish: Orta Kapı), leads into the palace and the Second Courtyard. This crenellated gate has...
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    section summarizes Davies and Amin in sources. Bakhchisarai Kiev Jassy Or Kapi Azov Ochakov Kaffa Khotyn Bender Akkerman The Ottoman Empire held forts along...
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    valide sultan. The Kizlar Agha (Kızlarağası, also known as the "Chief Black Eunuch" because of the Nilotic origin of most aghas) was the head of the eunuchs...
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    renovation) in 1777 at the end of the bazaar, funded by Mourabit Hadji Moustafa Agha and his wife. It was located on the hill of the citadel in what is today...
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    garden most of what a visitor sees today is fairly new. The Middle Gate (Orta Kapı) leading into the compound has been sealed since the then Patriarch was hanged...
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    "gates". These may be further subdivided into "four gates, forty levels" (Dört Kapı Kırk Makam). The first gate (religious law) is considered elementary (and...
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    Among the companies active in the city there are couple big companies as "Kapis Tomislavgrad","Kamensko d.o.o."and some transport and construction companies...
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    conquered".: 661  Contemporary Ottoman historian Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Agha (1658–1723) described the battle as an enormous defeat and failure for the...
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    pronunciation of the Greek word ἁγἰα, meaning "female Saint" and the Turkish word kapı, meaning "gate") is a quarter of Istanbul, Turkey. It is part of the district...
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    Küçük Efendi (or Fevziye) Mosque in Istanbul (1825) and the multi-domed Kapı Mosque in Konya (1812). The Nusretiye Mosque, Mahmud II's imperial mosque...
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  • Sophie Kalderimis List Mark Blumsky Daphne Kalekale List Jackie Blue Ashleigh Kapi List Ann Hartley Shaun Kennedy List Brian Donnelly Lauren Kilkolly List Rick...
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    fought for preeminence, and the state had recently become a dependency of Kapis. The country produced upland rice and sugar cane, and it had much wood but...
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    Among the companies active in the city there are couple big companies as "Kapis Tomislavgrad","Kamensko d.o.o."and some transport and construction companies...
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